Anatoly Petrovich Bogdanov

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Anatoly Petrovich Bogdanov (around 1880)

Anatoly Petrovich Bogdanov ( Russian Анатолий Петрович Богданов ; born October 1, jul. / 13. October  1834 greg. In Ujesd Nischnedewizk , † March 16 jul. / 28. March  1896 greg. In Moscow ) was a Russian zoologist , anthropologist and university professor .

Life

Bogdanow was a foundling and grew up with Princess GN Keikuatowa. From 1846 Bogdanov attended grammar school in Voronezh , from which he graduated in 1851 with a silver medal. Then he began studying at the physics and mathematics faculty of Moscow University (MGU) in the natural sciences department under Karl Rouillier . In 1855 he completed the candidate course with a silver medal for his work on geology . In 1856 he completed his master's degree and became a teacher in the agricultural school of the Imperial Society for Agriculture. In 1857 he traveled abroad at his own expense, where he heard lectures from Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and Charles Émile Blanchard .

In 1858 he defended his master's thesis on the color of bird feathers , whereupon he worked as an adjunct at the chair of zoology at the MGU. In 1859, on his second trip abroad, he visited the zoological gardens of Berlin , Leiden , Brussels , London and Paris and the museums there. In 1860 he was confirmed as adjunct. From 1863 he worked as an associate professor and directed the zoological museum of the MGU. With others he founded the Moscow Zoo . In his work on anthropology , he emerged as a critic of racial theories and polygenism (the emergence of humanity from several origins).

1865-1866 led Bogdanov excavations on the kurgans in Moscow Gubernia through it with the results his dissertation on the tribe created the Moscow Kurgane. In 1867 he received his doctorate in zoology and was appointed full professor at the chair of zoology and an honorary doctorate . In 1868 he again visited museums and zoological gardens in the Netherlands , Belgium , England , France and Italy and worked in Hesse and Naples . In 1870 he was appointed to the State Council (5th class ). In 1873 he and his family were accepted into the nobility of the Moscow Governorate at his request .

In 1873 Bogdanow worked in the Observatoire océanologique de Villefranche-sur-Mer and in the Naples Zoological Station and visited zoological institutions in London, Hamburg , Copenhagen , Stockholm and Uppsala . In 1878 he traveled again to Germany and France. In 1886 he became president of the Imperial Society of Friends of Science, Anthropology and Ethnography, which he initiated and founded in 1863 . In 1887 he was appointed a privy councilor (3rd class). In 1889, the Imperial Russian Society for the Acclimatization of Animals and Plants , which he had initiated and whose first scientific secretary he was from 1856 to 1858, sent him to the Paris World Exhibition and the Congrès international d'anthropologie et d'archéologie préhistoriques in Paris. In 1890 he was elected a corresponding member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences .

In the MGU Bogdanow organized the zoological internship at his chair for the practical exercises of the students . He directed the translations into Russian of the books on protozoa and coelenterates by Heinrich Georg Bronn and the tables of comparative anatomy by Julius Victor Carus . For Bogdanov students were Dmitri Nikolayevich Anuchin , Lev Berg , Sergei Alexeyevich Sernow , Vladimir Alexandrovich Wagner , Nikolai Viktorovich Nassonow , Nikolai Mikhailovich Kulagin , Alexei Alexeyevich Korotnew , Vasily Nikolayevich Uljanin , Grigori Aleksandrovich Kozhevnikov , Pavel Ilyich Mitrofanov , Nikolai Yuryevich Zograph and Vladimir Mikhailovich Shimkevich .

Bogdanov had three sons and a daughter. The eldest son Vladimir (1865-1931) studied at the physical-mathematical faculty of the MGU and then taught in Moscow at the 1st secondary school. He was ordained a Russian Orthodox priest in 1914 , was arrested after the October Revolution in 1923 and banished until 1924, and from 1929 lived as an ascetic on the outskirts of Sagorsk . The youngest son Elli (1872–1931) was one of the founders of zoo technology in the USSR . The daughter Olga (* 1868) wrote stories for children and dedicated herself to the scientific legacy of her father.

Bogdanov was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Nikolai Michailowitsch Knipowitsch : Богданов (Анатолий Петрович) . In: Brockhaus-Efron . tape IV , 1891, p. 160 ( Wikisource [accessed May 27, 2019]).
  2. ↑ Большая российская энциклопедия: БОГДА́НОВ Анатолий Петрович (accessed May 27, 2019).
  3. ↑ a b Russian Academy of Sciences: Богданов Анатолий Петрович (accessed May 27, 2019).
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h Archives of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Богданов Анатолий Петрович (accessed May 27, 2019).
  5. ↑ a b c d MGU: Богданов Анатолий Петрович (accessed on May 27, 2019).
  6. ↑ a b c Zoological Museum of the MGU: Anatoliy Petrovich Bogdanov (accessed May 27, 2019).
  7. ↑ КРИВОШЕИНА Г. Г .: А. П. БОГДАНОВ - ИСТОРИК И ЛЕТОПИСЕЦ МОСКОВСКОЙ НАУКИ . In: Voprosy istorii estestvoznaniia i tekhniki . No. 3 , 2007 ( eastview.com [accessed May 27, 2019]).
  8. ↑ Зограф Н .: Памяти А. П. Богданова. Некролог . In: Moskowskije Vedomosti . No. 77 , 1896.
  9. ↑ Отчёт Императорского Московского университета за 1858—59 академический и 1859 гражданский годы. С. 12 (accessed May 27, 2019).
  10. ^ Congrès international d'anthropologie et d'archéologie préhistoriques. Compte-rendu de la dixième session à Paris, 1889 . E. Leroux, Paris 1891 ( hathitrust.org [accessed May 27, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Bogdanov, Anatoly Petrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Богданов, Анатолий Петрович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian zoologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Ujesd Nizhnedevitsk
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1896
Place of death Moscow